Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?

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Luc Teirlinck

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Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?

Date:

Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:03:41 -0500 (CDT)

Richard Stallman wrote:
They may be trivial to implement, but if you're talking about the
ones that we discussed, they get rid of a useful feature.
Which feature? After my proposed change, .?.uu and .*.uu would still
do exactly the same thing they do now. My proposed change just
exploits the fact that .''?''.uu and .''*''.uu are currently useless
synonyms for the two simpler expressions. After my patch you can
cause expansion by surrounding ? or * on both sides by whitespace _or_
two single-quotes.
So:
mv ? .''?''.uu
prepends . and appends .uu to the names of all marked files.
This _adds_ a feature and gets rid of none. It does this without
making using wildcards less convenient, unlike the more difficult to
implement feature.
Sincerely,
Luc.